Ἀλώπηξ τὸν βοῦν ἐλαύνει
a fox drives the ox
Translated by Jennifer Benedict1 Jun 2000Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀλώπηξ τὸν βοῦν ἐλαύνει· τάττεται ἡ παροιμία ἐπὶ τῶν μὴ κατὰ λόγον ἀποβαινόντων. κερδοῖ συνών τε κερδοσύνην μὲν προσδόκα.
Betacode
*)alw/phc to\n bou=n e)lau/nei: ta/ttetai h( paroimi/a e)pi\ tw=n mh\ kata\ lo/gon a)pobaino/ntwn. kerdoi= sunw/n te kerdosu/nhn me\n prosdo/ka.
Notes (1)
- [1] So too in Photius, Lexicon alpha1089 Theodoridis, and cf. Diogenianus 1.75; Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1886.↩
- 2A line of iambic verse, apparently oracular. (Adler cites Astrampsychus, ed. Opsopoeus in Oraculis metricis Iovis, Paris 1507.) For the vocabulary cf. kappa 1390 and LSJ s.v.
kerdw/ . - 2A line of iambic verse, apparently oracular. (Adler cites Astrampsychus, ed. Opsopoeus in Oraculis metricis Iovis, Paris 1507.) For the vocabulary cf. kappa 1390 and LSJ s.v.
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